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Just. Can’t. Even.? – A Little Coffee Makes Everything Better Card

I thought I’d start by sharing with you something cool that came my way recently. Knowing I love tea and tea parties, my cousins surprised me this fabulously beautiful and unique Burton + Burton teapot/cup for one, and a terrific loose-leaf brewer/strainer with a bunch of wonderful Teavana teas, including a DIVINE chocolate decadence oolong. What a bunch of sweeties they are!! The teapot came from an amazing tea house called Batar, near Seymour, Indiana. Check out their website to see their amazing edible cookie gift boxes and other fun stuff. Worth stopping by if you’re travelling through!! (They serve regular tea-bag teas, but their food was delish and the shopping delightful for any tea/coffee lover!!)

Now, on to today’s card. I have a fun shaker tag on it with a concealed gift card for a coffee drinking friend:

I think most gals with CFS feel that chick most days – talk about hitting the wall! lol! If I were making this for me, I’d’ve put ‘chocolate’ instead of coffee. : )

A quick note on how the leaves were made: I love how the Color Burst pigment powders do just what their name says… you sprinkle just a little on your paper, then spritz with water and the colors really do burst on the scene!

Now, I could’ve added more color and spritzed again, but I wanted that just for some natural variation in the fall leaves. I then cut them out and colored the rest in with Copics and distressed them, folding in the veins. In real life, they look pretty realistic!

Oh, one other quick note… I had a brand new Hero Arts ombre pad that came unglued from the base. A while back another manufacturer’s petal point ink pad did the same and they told me just to glue it back on. I wrote Hero Arts asking the best way to glue theirs back on and they quickly wrote back saying that they stand by their product and would replace it for me. It was in the mail the very next day. THAT is customer service, folks!! This pad has worked fine ever since. Now I love Hero Arts all the more!

Supplies:

Hero Arts – A Little stamp set

Stamping Bella – the chicks who “couldn’t even” stamp set

CAS-ual Fridays – Scallop Tag and Acorn Fri-dies

Hero Arts ombre Butter Bar to Orange Soda dye ink pad

Color Box Cocoa pigment ink (for COFFEE)

Ranger clear embossing powder (over the cocoa ink)

Memento Rich cocoa ink (bird and sentiment)

Ken Oliver’s Color Bursts: Sepia, Burnt Orange, Yellow Ochre

Copic Markers:

Bird & wall: C1, 3, 5; Y13, 15, 17; YR04, 07; R29, 89; W1, 3

Leaves: E29, YR02, 04, 07; R29, 39

Pebbles, Inc. Basic Brights Chalks

Dreamweaver Picasso tool (for clouds)

Martha Stewart Crafts Vintage Leaf Glitter – Brownstone

Core-dinations cardstock – white & orange

Tombow: Xtreme permanent adhesive and foam tape

Misc. seed beads

Starbucks gift card

I’m playing along with the following hops and challenges – just click on any one for more information:

I definitely know how that chicken feels – love the small window on the shaker and how you built it into the sentiment…so clever! The leaf looks amazing too. Thanks for playing along at CAS-ual Fridays!

This is such a fantastic card! It reflects how we all feel sometimes, so I loved how easy it was to relate to! And I thought it was so clever of you to combine so many different elements and brands. It is whimsical and happy and bright! You did a great job and I’m so glad you shared such a delightful project with us for this week’s Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge!